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Bungie transitions Halo to 343, shares stats

Bungie finally transitioned the Halo franchise to 343 Industries, but not before sharing a tremendous amount of stats about the series.

Last summer, Bungie began the monumental task of transferring all its data management on the Halo series over to new developer 343 Industries. That process is finally complete, but in one last tribute to the franchise, Bungie unveiled a massive graphic of multiplayer statistics showing just how much data had been stored, and how popular the games were.

In all, players spent more than 85 million days playing Halo (or more than 2 billion hours), the graphic says. Weapon kills for Halo 3, Halo: ODST and Halo: Reach totaled more than 108.5 billion, or more than the number of humans that ever lived on Earth. There have been more than 350 million multiplayer games and more than 11.5 trillion points awarded.

There are lots of other staggering numbers to parse through. Bungie will continue to keep the historical data on its servers, even as it moves on to its next franchise with Activision.

John Keefer

Contributing Editor

John Keefer is a curmudgeon that has been in journalism for 35 years, the last 16 in the video games industry. He loves real-time strategy games and prefers old-school Total Annihilation to StarCraft. He also loves isometric RPGs, and has been addicted to World of Warcraft for more than 10 years. He sucks at shooters and multiplayer and is purely a PC guy. And being a former member of Shack, he also likes Chatty. Go figure.